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March 8, 2009, Sunday

Matthew Price Nonfiction Chronicle article notes books Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird by Andrew D Blechman, Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game--and How It Got That Way by Phillip E Orbanes, Sex and the...

January 7, 2007, Sunday

To the Editor: It was refreshing to read Toni Smith's thoughtful explanation for why she turns her back on the American flag during the pregame playing of the national anthem (''Player's Protest Over the Flag Divides Fans,'' Sports pages, Feb....

To the Editor: You report (''Black Scholars Mending a Rift With Harvard,'' front page, Jan. 4) that ''the members of the Afro-American Studies department distanced themselves from the issues raised by the Latino studies professors'' at Harvard who...

Legend has it that the longest commencement address, said to have been given in the early days of Harvard University, lasted six hours -- the first three in Latin, the latter in Greek. The shortest, alternately attributed to Andy Rooney or Woody...

To the Editor: Re ''All Boats Rise. Now What?'' (Op-Ed, April 12): William Julius Wilson points to our strong economy's productivity growth as responsible for the recent slowdown in rising family income inequality. But he left out an important...